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Berlin (dpa) - The health authorities transmitted 29,875 new infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours, according to the numbers from the morning.
That is more than 6000 more than the day before, when a record was also reached with 23,679 cases.
In addition, the RKI reported the second high within a short period of time with 598 new deaths.
The highest daily number of 590 deaths was reached on Wednesday.
The number of daily deaths had tended to go up recently, which was expected after the steep increase in new infections.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 20,970.
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In total, the RKI has counted 1,272,078 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic (as of December 10, 00:00).
It is estimated that around 942,100 people have now recovered.
According to the RKI management report on Thursday, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 1.03 (previous day: 0.99).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 103 more people.
The value has fluctuated around 1 for a few weeks and shows the infection process 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
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